Rahul Jadhav

Snapdeal is an e-commerce company based in India. It is a daily deals' website that features discount offers across lifestyle segments such as dining, health & beauty, entertainment and travel. It also offers discounts on products like electronics, perfumes, watches, bags, sunglasses, coaching classes, apparels and mobile phones. Headquartered in Delhi, Snapdeal.com was launched in February 2010. The company was founded by Kunal Bahl, a Wharton graduate and Rohit Bansal, alumnus of IIT Delhi who were friends since school.

COMPANY PROFILE

Snapdeal.com serves as an advertising platform for merchants and a discount platform for customers.

For the merchants who partner with Snapdeal, it is a cost-effective channel for acquiring new customers. It also works as a risk-free alternate marketing channel.

From the merchant’s standpoint, they are passing on the customer acquisition cost in the form of a discount offer.

Snapdeal(SD) gets the best offer possible from the merchants from around 65 cities across India and then deducts a small amount of commission.

SD aims at showing at least 40-90% off in the deals from what actually one has to pay. Depending upon how good the offer is, SD deducts their commission starting from Rs. 99 going up to Rs. 299.

For products, SD has a particular set of commission. The most ideal amount of commission SD charges with selling a product is 23%.

More than 50-60 thousand products are available online for customers to choose from.

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In June 2010, Snapdeal.com acquired Bangalore-based group buying site, Grabbon.com for an undisclosed amount.

Snapdeal has been rated the #1 e-commerce site in India, in terms of traction by Dataquest/Sapient E-commerce Survey 2011.

Snapdeal in tricity shoots out about 4 lakh promotional text messages and about 4-5 lakh emails, including news letters within a month.

Headmasters, Tress Lounge, Manor, Lemon, J.W. Marriot, Rajdhani are some of the top clients for Snapdeal in the tricity with the most repetitive orders.